JAZZ A CONFRONTO 18 - SUMMIT BIG BAND by SLIDE HAMPTON & DUSKO GOJKOVIC - HLL 101-18

Internationally conceived, the Summit Big Band includes five Americans, two Italians, one Jugoslav, one Pole, one French-man and one Englishman.
What other music you know, if not that jazz, which can break down the borders?

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-18
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at "Junior Studios", Rome 1972, January 25

Benny Bailey, Dusko Gojkovic, Bob Lanese (tps),
Bob Burgess, Slide Hampton (trnes),
Gianni Basso, Sal Nistico (tenor sax),
Laszek Zadlo (soprano sax, ten sax),
Sergio Rigon (bar sax),
Vince Benedetti (p),
Patrice Caratini (bass), Peer Wyboris (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Elocin - 8'35"
A2) Manhattan Mood - 4'51"
A3) Feeling - 5'20"

Side B

B1) It's About Time - 5'40"
B2) Personally Ake - 10'33"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 17 - JAC'S ANTHOLOGY - HLL 101-17

In this anthology, published by Aldo Sinesio at the middle of the the story of HORO, we find some alternative path of previous volumes, such as Johnny Griffin and Sal Nistico, one "anticipation", because this was the track of Steve Grossman, on the date which this collection was put on the market, and a curious experiment.

Three of these pieces all came out of the same session, in which Franco Ambrosetti's quartet was recording, but in this case the various components of the quartet meved into a freer pattern, breaking the structure of the group, creating small nuclei.

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-17
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, 1974/1975

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) The Pasta Parade - 8'38"
Johnny Griffin (ten sax),
Franco D'Andrea (p), Giovanni Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)
1974, April 7

A2) Paravento - 2'07"
Daniel Humair (drums & vocal)
1974, April 28

A3) Mariamar - 10'10"
Sal Nistico (ten sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Enrico Pieranunzi (p), Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)
1975, February 16

Side B

B1) Untitled - 10'47"
Steve Grossman (soprano sax, ten. sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Alessio Urso (g), Afonso Vieira (drums), Nilton Castro (perc)
1974, June 4

B2) Baje - 3'19"
Jasper Van't Hof (p)
1974, April 28

B3) Ashe Of Space - 5'40"
Franco Ambrosetti (flgh), J.F. Jenny-Clark (bass)
1974, April 28

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 16 - SAL NISTICO - HLL 101-16

Sal Nistico, born Salvatore Nistico 2 April 1938 in Syracuse (New York), died 3 March 1991 in Berne, Switzerland, was a jazz tenor saxophonist associated for many years in the mid-'60s with Woody Herman's Herd.


He started playing alto sax, switching to tenor in 1956 and briefly played baritone sax. In 1965, he joined Count Basie but returned on many occasions to play with Herman. He also played with Nat Adderley, Don Ellis, Stan Tracey, Chuck Mangione and Buddy Rich.

While not a well-known public figure, he was highly respected by his fellow tenor sax players as a “musicians' musician”. Sal's solo work contrasts his big band work. The solo work is more bebop oriented, as heard on the Heavyweights recordings.

Source www.allaboutjazz.com

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-16
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1975, February 2

Sal Nistico (tenor sax),
Irio De Paula (g),
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A
A1) Maracanà - 10'41"
A2) For You - 4'36"
A3) New April - 6'19"

Side B
B1) Segundo - 8'48"
B2) Bleu Marine - 6'28"
B3) Garotinho - 5'51"

Note:
the stickers on the label is of the Radio télévision belge de la communauté française, but I don't have info about Don Mercier (is an author, is a DJ?)

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 15 - JAC'S GROUP featuring CHARLIE MARIANO - HLL 101-15

After an excellent concert at the Music Inn in Rome, Aldo Sinesio asked Mariano & Co. to record an album for his label.
The result has met his expectations, I hope it's the same for your ...

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-15
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1975, January 18

Charlie Mariano (alto sax, soprano sax, fl), Philip Catherine (g), Jasper Van't Hof (yamaha organ), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (bass), Aldo Romano (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Look Up - 11'04"
A2) I Felt Obliged - 4'02"
A3) Zirkus - 4'23"

Side B
B1) 47 Seconds - 5'44"
B2) Eighteen Bar Blues - 6'23"
B3) Duo Maximum - 3'51"
B4) Unexpected - 2'24"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 13 - MASSIMO URBANI - HLL 101-13

In 1973 Enrico Rava plays in Rome, with Bruce Johnson, Chip White and John Abercrombie, the same ones with whom he recorded the beautiful "Katcharpari" for BASF, and on that occasion that he knows Massimo Urbani.

The encounter with this amazing little boy who plays the alto sax, marks the future musical choices of Rava and, once back in New York, he decides to call him to play in his new quartet, with Calvin Hill and Michael Carvin, projecting the young saxophonist in an international dimension, for attitudes and repertory.

The quartet plays for fifteen days at the Saint James Infirmary, the Club of Roswell Rudd and in the summer of 1974 Rava leads the group on a European tour which would have provided for a ECM recording, but that did not ever.

A few months later, Enrico Rava back in Italy, with Nestor Astarita on drums, replacing Carvin.
That quartet, today, is almost forgotten, although their music is recorded in a historic LP, out of the market for years, the volume 14 of the Jazz A Confronto, the next.

"It was a group with few rivals in the world : they mastered by sovereign security the most advanced forms of jazz's language, enriched with a large sign, melodic and virile ... their music was bold but solid, dense and intensely lyrical, and the two soloists improvised with the sound-form, making it hot, aggressive, ironic and, above all, free." (Marcello Piras).

Just days before the recording of that historic quartet, Aldo Sinesio decides to record the brilliant roman saxophonist, with the same rhythm section, but without Rava.
Probably, this is not the best record Massimo Urbani, but this is the first recording as a leader, and remains a memorable page.

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-13
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1974, November 11

Massimo Urbani (alto sax),
Calvin Hill (drums), Nestor Astarita (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Jorgelina (M. Urbani) - 4'46"
A2) Encuentro (M. Urbani) - 18'15"

Side B

B1) Creation (M. Urbani) - 20'25"

This rare album of HORO, was published some time ago on Weirdope, who writes what he goes to, when he goes to ... is for this reason that I'm more precious this post with a movie, rare as this LP: Massimo Urbani nella Fabbrica Abbandonata, by Paolo Colangeli.

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 12 - TEDDY WILSON - HLL 101-12

Teddy Wilson was born November 24, 1912 in Austin, Texas.
At the age of 17 years, having studied piano, violin and composition, he moved to Detroit, where he played with local musician.
From that moment, we find him at the side of the greatest jazzmen: with Louis Armstrong, Erskine Tate, Jimmy Noone, Benny Carter or Benny Goodman.
But is, above all, in his superb capacity to "accompany" Billie Holiday that Wilson expresses his most poetic.


It may seem strange that such a great pianist has rarely played his pieces, but it's the challenge of playing the compositions of others, until they own, that Teddy wanted to show us her exquisite musical sensibility and her undeniable mastery of music.

At this link, my friend Gerovi Jazz has collected some videos of Teddy Wilson.

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-12
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Junior Studio”,
Rome on 1974, May 2

Teddy Wilson (p)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1)Blues for Roma - 4'46"
A2) I Am Louis Armstrong
A3) Porgy and Bess Medley - 4'55"
a) It Ain't Necessarily So
b) Bess, You Is My Woman Now
c) Summertime
A4) L'Atmosfera C'è - 3'50"




Side B

B1) Blues For Teddy - 4'11"
B2) Body And Soul - 3'52"
B3) Duke Ellington Medley - 8'00"
a) Sophisticated Lady
b) Prelude To A Kiss
c) Satin Doll

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 9 - RENATO SELLANI - HLL 101-09

Renato Sellani was born in Senigallia (Ancona) in 1927.
At age 12 he began playing the organ in the church of his country, a few years later began studying the piano as an autodidact.
In 1950 he moved to Rome, host of Umberto Cesàri which receives the fundamental teachings.
Later, at the invitation of Franco Cerri, he moved to Milan where in September 1958, joined the legendary group "Basso & Valdambrini", which will work with up to 1971.
Also in '58 has in tourné with Lee Konitz, then with Chet Baker, with whom he recorded in 1959.
In 1961 he participated in three recordings of saxophonist and flutist Buddy Collette.
In his career he has beautifully accompanied famous singers, like Nicola Arigliano, Lilian Terry, Renata Mauro, Helen Merrill, Ginger Rogers, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday also.

His piano is present in many important pages of Italian jazz, recorded on vinyl, even if, in his name, he has recorded "only" a dozen historical records.
Among these I remember the first “Un Pianoforte per Due Innamorati” (1963), the first in piano solo, which opened the label DIRE (1969), the beautiful "Tizia", still in piano solo (1976) and the duet with Gianni Basso (1977)

In recent years, thanks to Paolo Piangiarelly of Philology, he has recorded another thirty important records, reworking some masterpieces of Italian songs in a unique way, elegant, rich in emotion and silence as his music.
For the same label he has recorded as co-leader with Lee Konitz, Tony Scott, Phil Woods, Irio De Paula, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Gianni Basso, Franco D’Andrea, Fabrizio Bosso, Barbara Casini and the rising stars Gianluca Petrella, Francesco Cafisio and Michela Lombardi, with whom he recorded two beautiful tributes to Chet Baker.

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-9
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1974, March 7

Renato Sellani (p),
Bruno Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums),
Gianni Basso (ten sax)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Autoritratto – 4’50”
A2) Sembrerebbe Quasi Festa – 4’34”
A3) Portrait of July – 3’05”
A4) Illimani – 4’36”
A5) Attesa – 3’12”



Side B

B1) Inquieto – 3’25”
B2) Patetico – 4’30”
B3) Long Mary – 4’50”
B4) Gres Time – 3’46”
B5) La Mia Vita – 2’52”